From the Emory University press release by Quinn Eastman: One of the brain’s jobs is to help us figure out what’s important enough to be remembered. Scientists at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University…
From the University of Chicago press release via EurekAlert!: Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Each year in the United States about $135 billion is spent in training employees — but those billions do not always improve the workplace because the skills…
From the UC Santa Barbara press release via EurekAlert!: You pick up your cell phone and dial the new number of a friend. Ten numbers. One. Number. At. A. Time. Because you haven’t actually typed…
From the CNRS (Délégation Paris Michel-Ange) press release via AlphaGalileo: Increasing the spacing between characters and words in a text improves the speed and quality of dyslexic children’s reading, without prior training. They read 20%…
From the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: Teachers learn a lot about how to teach curriculum in college, but they don’t get much training in helping…
From the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences press release via AlphaGalileo: A pair of new studies by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggest that collaborative touch-screen…
From the UC Irvine press release: Mizuko “Mimi” Ito spends a lot of time “geeking out” at her computer. She plays video games, trolls the Internet, chats, and visits social media sites such as Facebook…
From the Kennedy Krieger Institute press release via MedicalXpress: In a step towards improving rehabilitation for patients with walking impairments, researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute found that non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum, an area…
From the University of Nottingham press release via Physorg: Holidays could serve as a valuable extension of the national curriculum for the UK’s disadvantaged youngsters, new research has suggested. They provide a significant source of…